Risk Centers

As an addition to my rant on the dangers of outsourcing our data, I also would like to offer this list of risk centers. If you have data, programming, accounting, whatever, going out to these places please take a moment after you freak out a bit, to ponder closing those accounts.

Risk centers

These rankings are based on mean scores in 10 areas of risk as reported by The Brown-Wilson Group’s “2009: The Year of Outsourcing Dangerously.”

1. Bogota, Colombia

2. Bangkok, Thailand

3. Johannesburg, South Africa

4. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

5. Kingston, Jamaica

6. Delhi/Noida/Gurgaon, India

7. Manila/Cebu/Makita, Philippines

8. Rio de Janeiro

9. Mumbai, India

10. Jerusalem

11. Curitiba, Brazil

12. Dalian, China

13. Juarez, Mexico

14. Brasilia, Brazil

15. Chandigarh, India

16. Colombo, Sri Lanka

17. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

18. Quezon City, Philippines

19. Accra, Ghana

20. Pune, India

21. Chennai, India

22. Hanoi, Vietnam

23. Bangalore, India

24. Hyderabad, India

25. Kolkata, India

The Worst Three Cities for …

These rankings also come from The Brown-Wilson Group’s report, “2009: The Year of Outsourcing Dangerously.”